Wild Card String Comparison

[W. eWatson]

Timothy Grant wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:49 PM, W. eWatson <notvalid2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Is it possible to do a search for a wild card string in another string. For
>> example, I'd like to find "v*.dat" in a string called bingo. v must be
>> matched against only the first character in bingo, and not simply found
>> somewhere in bingo, as might be the case for "*v*.dat".
>> --
>>           Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
>>
>>             (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
>>              Obz Site:  39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
>>
>>                    Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>
>> --
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>>
> Is this what you're looking for?
> 
What's this?
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> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 19:35:16)
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> x = 'the quick brown fox'
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>>>> 'the' in x
> True
>>>> 'qui' in x
> True
>>>> 'jumped' in x
> False
> 
> If that doesn't meet  your needs you may want to look at the re
> module. But if you can avoid re's your likely better off.
re module??
> 
> 
There are no wild cards in your examples. * is one wild card symbol? 
begin*end means find "begin" followed by any string of characters until it 
find the three letters "end".

"begin here now but end it" should find "begin here now but end"
"beginning of the end is the title of a book" should find "beginning of the end"
"b egin but end this now" should find nothing.


-- 
            Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)

              (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
               Obz Site:  39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

                     Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>